See other pages on the capitol building:

Exterior

Exterior: Entrance porch

Other views of campus

Interior: Entrance Vestibule

Rotunda, dome interior and halls

Reception room

Washington State Capitol--page 2 (of 6 pages)

Walter Wilder and Harry White
1928

The portico with a coffered ceiling featuring decorative rosettes
The entrance portal with three sets of massive bronze doors The reliefs on the doors depict the early history of Washington. I believe these designs were created by Maxfield Keck of New York. (See his relief designs on Union Station in Cincinnati Ohio.)
		Relief depicting a sailing ship; relief with a Washington landscape scene--a forest with a waterfall
Relief depicting a settler's farm; relief with an early public building, the Territorial capitol
		Relief with a flock of sheep; relief depicting logging activity with oxen pulling logs

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